Mangaluru: Heavy rain accompanied by thunderstorm and lightning that lashed the city on Thursday brought a big tree crashing down on cars and an electrical transformer at Babugudde near Attavara.

Former minister and MLA UT Khader said that nobody should indulge in bohemianism and create law and order problem in the name of celebration.

A driver of a car who sustained severe injuries when another car rammed his car head-on, died on the way to hospital at Mijaru near here on Thursday.

Two youth who have been to Sita river at Avarse for swimming drowned in the river on Thursday afternoon.

A moving car got fire on the main road at Jyothi in the city on Thursday and damaged partially.

Three children of a same family from Mangaluru who have been to Goa to visit a temple drowned in a temple pond near Ponda on Wednesday evening. The victims were identified as Adithi Bhat (12), Bhuvaneshwar Bhat (8) and Shravana Balakrishna Holla (7).

In spite of resort politics, former minister and MLA UT Khader reached Mangaluru on Wednesday night from Eagleton Resort of Bengaluru where Congress MLA's are camping.

An old building of the local police station which is being used as the Home Guards office, was damaged due to a mysterious explosion inside the building here on Wednesday evening.